As I get ready for surgery, I do not have the travail of not having sufficient health insurance but that is not the experience of too many of my fellow Americans.

Since the present administration took office, 3 million of our citizens have lost health insurance, according to some estimates. And that political party blatantly admits that its goal is to eradicate what is left of affordable health care. And they are now in the courts seeking legal power to eliminate preexisting conditions.

Adding the pressure to not fund Medicaid and to defund Planned Parenthood leads us to the elimination of the health safety net for the least of us.

There are so many other reasons to vote for the party out of power on Nov. 6, but health issues are the most important for me as I enter the voting booth.

Thomas C. Miller

Bethlehem

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